Yes, Prime Minister: The National Education Service

Air Date

Friday January 8, 1988

Production Code

LLCS328L

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  • Peter Cartwright Chief Whip
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  • Jonathan Lynn Writer

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  • Ronnie Hazlehurst Music

• Recurring Roles

  • Deborah Norton Dorothy Wainwright
  • Deborah Norton Dorothy Wainwright the PM's Political Adviser

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  • Diana Hoddinott Annie Hacker
  • Derek Fowlds Bernard Woolley
  • Paul Eddington Rt Hon James Hacker
  • John Nettleton Sir Arnold Robinson
  • Nigel Hawthorne Sir Humphrey Appleby
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• Sir Humphrey: Hello Bernard, I hear the Prime Minister wants to see me?
  Bernard Woolley: Yes, Sir Humphrey.
  Sir Humphrey: What's his problem?
  Bernard Woolley: Education.
  Sir Humphrey: Well, it's a bit late to do anything about that now. [edit]
• Sir Humphrey: You just don't leave important matters in the hand of those clowns [local councils]. And as you've left education to them, one must assume that until now you've attached little importance to it.
  Jim Hacker: I think it is extremely important. It could loose me the next election.
  Sir Humphrey: Ah!! In my naivety, I thought you were concerned about the future of our children.
  Jim Hacker: Yes, that too. For they get the vote at eighteen. [edit]
• Jim Hacker: What are you saying?
  Sir Humphrey: I am saying that education will never get any better as long as its subject to all that tomfoolery in the town halls. I mean, just imagine what would happen if you put defence in the hands of the local authorities.
  Jim Hacker: Defence?
  Sir Humphrey: Yes, give the local councils a hundred million each and ask them to defend themselves. We wouldn't have to worry about the Russians; we would have a civil war in three weeks. [edit]

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